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An oral regimen of
sofosbuvir/ledipasvir plus ribavirin taken for 12 weeks cured most hepatitis C
patients with decompensated cirrhosis, the most advanced stage of liver
disease, according to a presentation on Tuesday at the American Association for th…

People with HIV – most of whom had hepatitis B
or C co-infection – generally had good outcomes after liver transplantation due
to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with five-year survival rates similar to
those of HIV-negative transplant recipients and better than those of people who
underwent other types of liver cancer treatment, researchers reported this

One of the key strategies involved in trying to bring an end
to the HIV epidemic is to increase the proportion of HIV-positive people on antiretroviral
therapy (ART), to the point where suppressing their viral load starts to reduce
onward infection.
What is usually called ‘treatment as prevention’ lies behind
the
ambitious new target announced

Young people who inject drugs (PWID) who undergo opioid
agonist maintenance therapy with methadone or buprenorphine have more than a
60% reduced risk of acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) over time
compared to those with no substance use treatment, acco…

There was widespread misunderstanding and misinterpretation of questions
about anal sex being asked of participants inthe Vaginal
and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic (VOICE) trial existed, according to findings of a qualitative
ancillary stu…

Treatment with a triple
antiretroviral combination containing once-daily integrase inhibitor dolutegravir
(Tivicay) is superior to the ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor darunavir
(Prezista) over 96 weeks of follow up,Jean-Michel Molina of the Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, reported at the Internatinal Congress of
Drug Therapy in HIV Infection in Glasgow last week.

Dolutegravir is also a component of

Treatment with a triple
antiretroviral combination containing once-daily integrase inhibitor dolutegravir
(Tivicay) is superior to the ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor darunavir
(Prezista) over 96 weeks of follow up,Jean-Michel Molina of the Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, reported at the Internatinal Congress of
Drug Therapy in HIV Infection in Glasgow last week.

Dolutegravir is also a component of

People who achieve
sustained virological response (SVR) when treated with interferon-based therapy
for hepatitis C have a lower risk of death, are less likely to develop liver
cancer and need fewer liver transplants than those who were treated but not …

All but one
participant treated with a co-formulation of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir (Harvoni) achieved sustained virological
response at 12 weeks post-treatment in a study looking at traditionally hard-to-treat
HIV/HCV coinfected patients, researchers r…

Darunavir/ritonavir monotherapy results in a lower rate of
viral suppression after 48 weeks when compared to darunavir/ritonavir plus two
nucleoside analogues, but may be just as effective as three-drug therapy in
people with nadir CD4 cell counts abov…